Playing and listening to sound while sleeping can reinforce previous learning, a Northwestern-led study released in October concluded. Led by Jessica Creery (Weinberg ’15, Ph.D.’19), a former graduate student at NU’s Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, the study examined memory consolidation — the process by which new memories are stored in the brain and transformed into enduring,.
For those who rarely forget a face, but struggle with names, the remedy for boosting learning may be as near as one's pillow. New research by Northwestern University, became the first to document the effect reactivating memory during sleep has on face-name learning.